Inspired by the spaghetti dinners of <a href="http://www.greatsmallworks.org/">Great Small Works</a>, this dinner theater series brought people together around food, music, and performance about a monthly theme. Blurring the line between art and academia, sprout spaghetti dinners asked academics to approach their lectures as performance and puppeteers to present their theater as pedagogy.

A crowd gathers inside sprout in a garage, sitting and standing, eating and talking

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A hand reaches into a miniature puppet stage ringing a bell above a banner reading, "We are the people, not the enemy"

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A long exposure shot of someone fire spinning 

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A few musicians talk to each other, smiling, about to start a song

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A crowd gather outside sprout's studio space, chatting in small groups and eating spaghetti

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The Boston Typewriter Orchestra gets the crowd singing "White Out," a comedic cover of “Wipe Out”

Dr. Michel DeGraff speaks at the dinner about Haiti

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Yang Yang demonstrates the motion-activated lights on her skirt along a DIY runway

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The band Skorosmrtnica leads a line dance during their musical set

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Someone smiles into a glowing test tube during the "In your genes" spaghetti dinner

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Drag queen Becca DeBus emcees the Gender and Fashion dinner 

Spaghetti Dinners2009–2016